Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

[NightStrike]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Peter Johansson wrote:
>>
>> Makefile.am [in topdir]. For those fragment files, it would probably be
>> confusing if paths were inserted into variables. Perhaps one could have a
>> switch to turn that feature on.
>
>
> Yes, it would be good to have a syntax which tells Automake to perform path
> substitutions based on the relative path of the Makefile include fragment.
> Otherwise Automake would operate as it does now. This syntax would allow
> subdirectories to be moved around without needing the modify the Makefile
> include fragments.  Existing recursive per-subdirectory Makefile.am files
> should be easily updateable to work with a non-recursive build.  In fact, it
> may be that the updated per-subdirectory Makefile.am files could still be
> used to support a recursive configuration depending on how they are used.
>
> I believe that I proposed a syntax on this list in late 2003 or early 2004.
> Perhaps my posting can be found in a mail archive somewhere.

Can you add this feature to automake?